Guest: Vera von Lehndorff

In VERUSCHKA – INSZENIERUNG (M)EINES LEBENS (Paul Morrissey, Bernd Böhm, Germany 2005), Vera Lehndorff relates anecdotes from her eventful life. Born in East Prussia in 1939 as the daughter of one of the 20 July plot conspirators, she went on to become an internationally celebrated supermodel in the 60s under the name "Veruschka". She posed for all the great photographers of the time from Richard Avedon to Irving Penn as well as being the model for Salvador Dalí's Shaving Cream Sculptures. Her appearance in Antonioni's Blow Up made her into the icon of an age. Her transformations and metamorphoses before the camera led Vera von Lehndorff to work with artist Holger Trülzsch, whose full body paintings allowed her to melt into the surroundings and disappear. "I have always seen my life as a model as a sort of performance acted out by the artificial character of Veruschka, who I brought into being in the 60s." (Vera Lehndorff) (December 6, Vera Lehndorff in person, Moderated by Madeleine Bernstorff)